WAR IN CHINA

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1942, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

U.S.A. BOMBERS' OFFENSIVE

HEAVY DAMAGE INFLICTED

CHUNGKING, August -11. American bombers, in a largescale raid, dumped tons of bombs on enemy military objectives at Canton. They blasted docks and warehouses along the Pearl River. They scored direct hits on a Japanese aerodrome, and probab'y destroyed 15 bombers parked on the field. The Chungking correspondent of the United Press of America says the attack was designed to cripple a big striking force the Japanese have been building up to attack the United States Air Force. American bombers also blasted Japanese installations, a barracks, an aerodrome, runways, hangars, and railway stations at Nanchang and Yochow. The Americans shot down three Japanese aeroplanes attempting interception near Nanchang. The United Press of America correspondent expresses the opinion that the attacks on Japanese bases along a 600-mile front from Hankow to Canton are undoubtedly partially designed as a diversion to prevent the Japanese from rushing aerial reinforcements to the Solomons. At Linchwan, the Japanese base in Kiangi Province, the Chinese have thrown the Japanese out of their entrenchments in the western suburbs of the town. In the Huan Province a Japanese attack was repulsed, and a Japanese attack is reported west of Sinyang.

FORMOSA BOMBED.

CHUNGKING, August 12

The United Press Association correspondent reports that Allied planes, presumably American, bombed Formosa to-day. f A communique from General Stilwell’s headquarters says that American planes bombed a Japanese aerodrome at Nanchang, shot down one enemy plane, and probably another, scored hits on an airfield, and one directly on a hangar. The Chinese High Command reports that continued fighting is goin? on around Linchwan, and that Japanese attacks on the western suburbs were repulsed. The Japanese garrison at Chuhsien has received 2000 men in reinforcements, which pushed northward under the cover of planes. They are now engaged by the Chinese.

JAPANESE TORTURES

(X.Z.P.A. Special Australian Correspondent)

SYDNEY, August 12. Grim details of tortures inflicted on him by the Japanese have been told by a Dutch civil servant here. He was bound hand and foot, and for two days and two nights hung by his hands from a wooden fence with a rope round his neck and a bayonet pressed against his lorehead to prevent sleep. , , When the Japanese lanaed on a small East Indian island where the Dutchman was serving, they immediately took him before the commander. He was kept standing for many hours, when a Japanese naval officer suddenly decided that the. standing European was out of place in Japanese company and knocked him down. He was then tied in the manner described. Each time he complained he was hit in the face and on his back with a horsewhip. Other men were also tied to the fence, and the Japanese soldiers kicked them as they passed. On the third day the Dutch official was permitted to join his wife at the local hospital, where they lived for four months on a meagre. diet ol rice before they were able to escape with the help of friendly natives.